Tag: Hyperlocal Service Provider

QuickGhy collaborates with ASDM to launch mobile app, QG Daksha

QuickGhy collaborates with ASDM to launch mobile app, QG Daksha

By startupassam

Hyperlocal service aggregator and Assam Startup incubatee, QuickGhy has collaborated with Assam Skill Development Mission to launch the mobile application, QG Daksha, on 24 February 2021 at the PWD Convention and Training Centre in Guwahati, in the gracious presence of the Honourable Minister for Industries & Commerce, Sri Chandra Mohan Patowary.

QG Daksha is a unified platform for services that allows users to list their services online and help them get connected to potential clients. It offers ease-of-use to customers to access home care and personal care services in the comfort of their homes. The platform poses to bring the fragmented service sector under a unified umbrella, offering quality-tested services by the local vendors with uniform pricing.

The App is loaded with features such as App call, chat, rate profile, view profile options, and WhatsApp support for efficient communication among Service Seekers and Service Providers. The team is focused on maintaining efficient and excellent hospitality and offers 24×7 helpline support for users having any queries related to the service. The GPS feature allows the Service Providers to set their location and availability so that the users can find the nearest available Service Providers and after booking the service, the Service Seekers should be able to track the movement of the Service Providers up to their doorsteps.

Hitherto, QuickGhy had been taking requests on their social media handles for services including plumbing, electrical repairs, deep cleaning, sanitisation, beauty and personal care, personalised confectionery, fitness training, nutrition guide, marble and tile polishing, etc. To date, QuickGhy has on-boarded 100 service providers, facilitating an average monthly income of Rs. 8000 for each. The collaboration with ASDM is expected to create a pipeline of more than 60 skilled workers for immediate onboarding on the platform.

Apart from catering to the service requirements of the people of Assam, QG Daksha would generate the much-needed employment opportunities for the local youths of Assam. The partnership with ASDM will serve to build a decent work and economic growth space, in addition to building sustainable cities and contribute to responsible consumption in context to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN – SDGs).

ASDM’s mission for upskilling the local youths for better employability falls perfectly in sync with QuickGhy’s objective to create livelihood opportunities for the native population. The collaboration corroborates the importance of mutual support and inter-departmental efforts to push the growth of the startups towards realizing the greater mission of abating unemployment issues in the state.

Given that the mainstream markets in India have almost reached a point of saturation, it’s obvious for the big players to eye on the untapped market in North East India. While a competitive challenge from the big players is inevitable, the startups from the region have the home-ground advantage of knowing the market needs and customer behaviour better. It’s upto the startups how they leverage this advantage to set a cut above the seasoned players. Whereas the Government of Assam has been doing its bit to support, promote, and collaborate with the rising local startups like QuickGhy, a crucial part of the verdict also lies with the local consumers in terms of their willingness to opt for local offerings over big brands. At the end of the day, the effectiveness of the Vocal for Local movement will be decided in the market rather than on social media.

Quick Ghy sets to pose as Guwahati’s answer to UrbanClap

Quick Ghy sets to pose as Guwahati’s answer to UrbanClap

By startupassam

The service sector has been an emerging domain in India with cities coming up with smart solutions to everything. Owing to the increasing demand for daily essentials in the cities, a Guwahati based startup – Quick Ghy Pvt. Ltd – has started a digital marketplace for services.

Quick Ghy is a unified platform for services that allows users to list their services online and help them get connected to potential clients. It works on building an instant, reliable, and convenient platform that allows users to access home care and personal care services in the comfort of their homes.

Siblings Gaurav Medhi and Drishti Medhi identified the pain point of the urban households in getting access to instant reliable services that have emerged as a necessity due to a busy urban lifestyle. Without wasting much time, they decided to act on designing a solution that would result in a win-win game for both the hyperlocal service providers and the users. They laid the foundation of Quick Ghy in June 2019 and had soon started gaining decent traction.

An incubatee from the second Cohort at Assam Startup – The Nest, Quick Ghy offers an array of home care services like plumber, electrician, carpenter, dietician, psychology counselor, deep cleaning, personal grooming and beauty, and personal fitness.

With the COVID-19 posing challenges for people and businesses, Quick Ghy has started sanitization services for both domestic and commercial spaces like the Central Bank of India office in Guwahati. A team of service partners in PPE kits sanitizes the space after undergoing due temperature checks.

Starting up with Rs. 3 Lakh as capital, Quick Ghy has come a good way in just a year, catering to more than 1000+ households and commercial places to date. With a keen understanding of the unserved needs of the people at this hour, the startup has tailored virtual sessions on fitness and mental wellbeing and is also working on enabling home visits for delivering personal grooming services while maintaining strict safety norms.

Quick Ghy is, currently, banking on their social media handles, leaflets, and word of mouth to disseminate awareness about their existence. Works are underway to get the App in place soon.

Coming from a business family, it won’t be an exaggeration to comment on the siblings’ inherent drive to innovate solutions.

“Having had the niche to explore and the urge to contribute towards a greater goal, we decided to pave our path towards entrepreneurship,” Drishti says.

However, the inheritance of key entrepreneurial traits did not make their journey any easier in the early days. Asked about the key challenges that they had faced, the sibling founders are quick to point out about the trials undertaken to establish the product-market fit. With national players like UrbanClap already making their pan India presence loud and clear, the people of Guwahati do have a fair idea of the digital marketplace. But, gaining the confidence of the customers about their services being at par with those national players was tasking that demanded a good amount of patience and persistence. The issue of logistics, especially in times of COVID-19 has been posing another major challenge. Nevertheless, the young founders have fared well to overcome those challenges and carve a way for themselves.

Their positive spirit and entrepreneurial zeal are evident in their vision to go pan India in the next 3 years in the face of bigger and more experienced competitors existing in the market. More than anything else, their mission lies in impacting livelihoods and helping the thousands of vocationally skilled workers in the country find easy access to the market. The process has already begun as the Guwahati-based service providers, working with Quick Ghy, have already recorded a spur in their earnings. For instance, the electricians working with Quick Ghy have witnessed a sharp rise in their income from Rs. 5000 a month to Rs. 10, 000. It’s this impact-oriented perspective that is expected to take Quick Ghy to places.

Perhaps, all that they would need right now is a bit of support and confidence of the locals from their city, Guwahati, because, no matter wherever the climax might lead them to, their success story must germinate in the hometown.

 

Here’s a story about a startup that has launched an app to organize all the donations and distributions of the COVID-19 relief materials by a number of volunteers & volunteering organizations in the Cachar district of Assam.

 

By: Satarupa Mishra